Yuliya Martynova

Yuliya Martynova

About Yuliya Martynova

Born and raised in Kazakhstan (1980), Yuliya was a promising art school graduate age 15 when Soviet union collapsed and her creative aspirations had to be channeled into more practical legal career instead. She moved to London in 2005 and after 10 years working in oil and wealth management industries she finally broke apart from the corporate world to be a full time artist.
Yuliya is on eternal quest for an ultimate artistic elegance. Delicate structures and strong narratives picked from her observations of human nature is quintessentially the base of her creative style. Watercolour was her long standing dominant media though Yuliya often ventures to mix water based materials with oil and graphite on wood, canvas and paper.
Yuliya's work contemplates over the subject of departure. Parting with somebody or something, cognitive state of loosing something valuable such as identity, innocence or childhood.
In her seascape collection she focuses on escaping the city for the idyllic Blue Bay shores.
The latest body of work, The Ripples, Yuliya quickly merges past and future with elements bringing to our attention the issue of lost of time.
In Colour Code, she omits the important words hidden behind the brush strokes and mends ties of broken relationship in the post departure existence of Connected and Migration series.
Yuliya is a frequent participant of London art fairs, regular works with interior designers on specific sites and plans to bring more work to the US in the upcoming years. Till March 2018 Yuliya is on residence in Moscow continuing to work two weeks in a month from her London studio.

Education:

1990-1995 Aktau School of Fine Arts
2010-2011 GDL BPP School of Law
2009-2011 LLM Queen Mary University of London,

Events:

- Isolation has been featured in Doctor Strange, the movie, two artworks acquired by Marvel

- Vogue | Stella is now part of the top rated TV drama SCANDAL shown since 2012. Artwork used for Olivia Pope flat decoration from episode 515 onwards.

- Vortex - used for cover of an Academic Monograph 'Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era ' by London Bloomsbury Publishing House, Apr 2016

- several Blue Bay pieces was acquired by Sorgiovanni Designs for refit of large luxury yacht, Migration Allure on paper commission for prestigious private residence in Belgravia (London) by an establisged firm SHH architects.

- prints of Blue Bays have been signed for Limited Prints with Eaton Fine Art (Austin TX) and Saatchi Limited Hospitality for Hawaii and Florida hotels refurbishments.

- SAGA Cruises - several original Blue Bays are now in making for new ships